the money to subscribe or anything like that. we operate out of a budget that is appropriated to us by the city of trenton, but we are secure in that we will always be a free public library. libraries are an amazing institution within our country. free public libraries, even greater. we have the ability to offer individuals things that they cannot afford or have access to. what's amazing is here in the free public library everyone is equal. it doesn't matter if you're the richest person or if you have personally not a penny to your name. but what's amazing is when you come through the door of a public library, you are equal, and everyone has access to everything. >> we're outside the trenton city museum where c san is -- c-span is learning more about the city's literary scene. up next, we speak with robert mcgreevey on "borderline citizens." >> older industries tended to focus on nation-centered accounts, to is we tended to frame immigration history in terms of the run rooted -- uprooted, the transplanted. and these ideas assumed that migrants crossed a clear boundary, crossing from their home country to the united states. and what